To start off, please read the post with the oration of Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Now read the preamble of the “Declaration of Independence.” This will bring a good understanding of the original intent for the American government, “The Great Experiment.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.” (Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776)
To reiterate, “To secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed (us)…” When that which was conducive to propagate godly values becomes the instrument of wickedness we have the mandate, RIGHT and duty to question it. Remember, the people ARE THE AUTHORITY. Therefore the people must not passively standby as this country is ravaged by “the Banksters,” injustice, covetousness, and immorality. Please understand we are in a similar position today like it was in 1776. The servant government has become a cruel master over the true authority of the people. The avarice in the people’s hearts and the rejection of Christ as Head has created a vacuum that’s been filled with wickedness. This is the truth! We need to wake up to the facts if we are to stop this wicked momentum before its too late! It is important to ask ourselves, “How did we get in this condition?” And, “What must we do to get out of it?” Selah. We will bring more answers later.
As we continue to unfold the matter it would be wise to read early accounts of principled men who were instrumental in the foundation of America. There is a tremendous amount of historical documentation evidencing the intentions and purposes for this land. I feel it is appropriate to highlight some important quotes to give a well-rounded understanding of the providential hand of God on America. Carefully observe their articulation, love for truth, pearls of wisdom and transparency of heart.
William Bradford:
He wrote that they (the Pilgrims) were seeking: 1) “a better, and easier place of living;” and that “the children of the group were being drawn away by evil examples into extravagance and dangerous courses (in Holland).” 2) “The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing of the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world.”
“Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together…” (The Mayflower Compact authored by William Bradford, 1620)
John Adams:
“We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!” (John Adams & John Hancock, April 18, 1775)
“The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.” (John Adams)
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” (John Adams, October 11, 1798)
“He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all… Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.” (Samuel Adams, August 1, 1776)
John Quincy Adams:
“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?” (John Quincy Adams, 1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts)
Benjamin Franklin:
“God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.” (Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention of 1787)
Alexander Hamilton:
Hamilton began work with the Rev. James Bayard to form the Christian Constitutional Society to help spread over the world the two things which Hamilton said made America great:
(1) Christianity
(2) a Constitution formed under Christianity. “The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.”
“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”
John Hancock:
“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments… at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness… Resolved; …Thursday the 11th of May…to humble themselves before God under the heavy judgments felt and feared, to confess the sins that have deserved them, to implore the Forgiveness of all our transgressions, and a spirit of repentance and reformation …and a Blessing on the … Union of the American Colonies in Defense of their Rights [for which hitherto we desire to thank Almighty God]…That the people of Great Britain and their rulers may have their eyes opened to discern the things that shall make for the peace of the nation…for the redress of America’s many grievances, the restoration of all her invaded liberties, and their security to the latest generations.” (A Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, with a total abstinence from labor and recreation. Proclamation on April 15, 1775)
Patrick Henry:
“It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” (May 1765, Speech to the House of Burgesses)
“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”
“This is all the inheritance I can give my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.” (The Last Will and Testament of Patrick Henry)
First Chief Justice John Jay:
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” (October 12, 1816, The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay)
“Whether our religion permits Christians to vote for infidel rulers is a question which merits more consideration than it seems yet to have generally received either from the clergy or the laity. It appears to me that what the prophet said to Jehoshaphat about his attachment to Ahab, “Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord?”(2 Chron. 19:2) affords a salutary lesson.” (The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, 1794-1826)
Thomas Jefferson:
“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus.”
“I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” (excerpts are inscribed on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations capital, From Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781)
James Madison:
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity… to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” (1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia)
“A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest, while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.”
(Letter to William Bradford urging him to make sure of his own salvation, November 9, 1772)
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22; “For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us.”
Baron Charles Montesquieu:
“Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separated from legislative power and from executive power. If it [the power of judging] were joined to legislative power, the power over life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislature if it were joined to the executive power, the judge could have the force of an oppressor. All would be lost if the same… body of principal men… exercised these three powers.” (Baron Charles Montesquieu, 1748)
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg:
In a sermon he delivered to his Virginia congregation on Jan. 21, 1776, he preached from Ecclesiastes 3. Arriving at verse 8, which declares that there is a time of war and a time of peace, Muhlenberg noted that this surely was not the time of peace; this was the time of war. Concluding with a prayer, and while standing in full view of the congregation, he removed his clerical robes to reveal that beneath them he was wearing the uniform of an officer in the Continental army! He marched to the back of the church; ordered the drum to beat for recruits and over three hundred men joined him, becoming the Eighth Virginia Brigade. John Peter Muhlenberg finished the Revolution as a Major-General, having been at Valley Forge and having participated in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stonypoint, and Yorktown.
Thomas Paine:
“It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.”
“The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.”
(The Existence of God, 1810)
Benjamin Rush:
“I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them… we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this Divine Book, above all others, constitutes the soul of republicanism.”
“By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.” (Letter written 1790’s in Defense of the Bible in all schools in America)
Justice Joseph Story:
“I verily believe Christianity is necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law… There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.” (Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States)
Noah Webster:
“The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables;
one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to
our fellow man.”
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed… No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” (Preface to his American Dictionary, 1828)
“Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God [Exodus 18:21]… If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted… If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. (The History of the United States, 1832)
“Education is useless without the Bible” (Our Christian Heritage)
George Washington:
“…Reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle…”(Excerpt from the Farewell Address)
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”
“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” (Speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779)
“Is it necessary that any one should [ask], ‘Did General Washington avow himself to be a believer in Christianity?’ As well may we question his patriotism, his heroic devotion to his country? His mottos were, ‘Deeds, not Words;’ and, ‘For God and my Country.’”(Nelly Curtis-Lewis, Washington’s adopted daughter)
“O Most Glorious God, in Jesus Christ, my merciful and loving Father; I acknowledge and confess my guilt in the weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day. I have called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of my sins, but so coldly and carelessly that my prayers are become my sin, and they stand in need of pardon.”
“I have sinned against heaven and before Thee in thought, word, and deed. I have contemned Thy majesty and holy laws. I have likewise sinned by omitting what I ought to have done and committing what I ought not. I have rebelled against the light, despising Thy mercies and judgment, and broken my vows and promise. I have neglected the better things. My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great. I confess them, O Lord, with shame and sorrow, detestation and loathing and desire to be vile in my own eyes as I have rendered myself vile in Thine. I humbly beseech Thee to be merciful to me in the free pardon of my sins for the sake of Thy dear Son and only Savior Jesus Christ who came to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me.” (George Washington; from a 24 page authentic handwritten manuscript book dated April 21-23, 1752)
New York Spectator, August 23, 1831:
“The court of common pleas of Chester County, [New York] rejected a witness who declared his disbelief in the existence of God. The presiding judge remarked that he had not before been aware that there was a man living who did not believe in the existence of God; that this belief constituted the sanction of all testimony in a court of justice: and that he knew of no cause in a Christian country where a witness had been permitted to testify without such belief.”
As evidenced from a plethora of quotes from God fearing men, America’s intended existence was to support a godly and virtuous people. I believe our Heavenly King has a great destiny for the people on the soil of American but we have lost our way. I believe we have deviated significantly from the original path God has for us. The plumb-line is clearly revealed in Scripture and the historical evidence presented. When there is rebellion against God and a disregard for His laws it will leave a nation in ruin. What we see today, in general, is a nation that has become a cesspool of sin. The original intent was to be a beacon of freedom, love, evangelism, prosperity, and hope now America leads the world in debt and debaucheries! Don’t passively say, “that’s just the way it is, I can’t do anything about it.” It’s not supposed to be this way. I believe what we see today was never the Lord’s heartbeat for the people. We have allowed sin to creep in unaware and unchallenged. We are at war for the souls of men. Anyone who has eyes can see the struggle between two kingdoms wrestling over the destiny of America. Be part of the solution starting from the inside out. Keep the plumb-line of God’s original intent for yourself and this country in mind so you will not fall into deception traveling the straight and narrow. Christ is King!
